mmillin

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by mmillin 6d ago
I think a lot of the loss of shame is a result of multiculturalism. The more cultures you accept, the fewer behaviors you can openly shame. As a benign example, eating food with your hands rather than utensils. In some cultures this is rare
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by mmillin 12d ago
At some point every non-secured place you can store data online will be used as an agent swarm message board.
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by mmillin 1mo ago
I see a lot of people below arguing that this isn’t the fault of the EU policy but the companies. I think that’s being overly charitable to the policy. While you can be rightly upset with the companies behavior, ultimately policy has to wor
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by mmillin 1mo ago
I got strong feelings of Vernor Vinge’s work here. I’m not sure how managed to come up with such a close picture to where it now seems programming and security is headed.
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by mmillin 2mo ago
Feels very related to the idea of refinement culture: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture While the connectedness of our world allows for great ideas to be spread and shared, there’s a huge reducti
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by mmillin 3mo ago
Obviously it isn’t totally impossible, but it becomes challenging to know if it’s required or not. It’s hardest when it isn’t just throwing an error but instead defaulting to something only half-sensible. For example replacing a negative nu
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by mmillin 3mo ago
>Yet even with a lot of manual steering, that type of code does not come out of LLMs naturally, and even if the code comes out naturally like that, they will still attempt to handle now impossible errors. This is something I’ve struggled
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by mmillin 4mo ago
Do you have a source for how little maintenance this will need? I imagine there will be teams of people continually employed for regular maintenance and operations. Concrete does develop “bugs” in the form of cracks, chips, or other damage
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by mmillin 4mo ago
This is an excellent article, I’ve seen almost all of the issues it calls out in production for various APIs. I’ll be saving this to share with my team. I’ve seen two separate engineers implement a “generic idempotent operation” library whi
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by mmillin 5mo ago
This article reminded me a lot of a previous HN post[0] which hinted at choreographic programming[1]. While this post is light on details, I think this is an interesting space and deserves much more attention than it gets today. I'm ex
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by mmillin 5mo ago
This is so cool, going to have to check out all of the posts in this series. I recently got a manual knitting machine (a basic round one, non programmable) and have really been enjoying the process. Learning about the more advanced machines
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Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it [audio](signalsandthreads.com)
2 points by mmillin 6mo ago|0 comments
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Let me slop that for you(letmeslopthatforyou.com)
4 points by mmillin 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mmillin 6mo ago
This feels about as useful as the evil bit: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514
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by mmillin 8mo ago
This is a topic I’ve been wanting a book on for a long time. We’ve done so much work to eliminate the need for maintenance for the masses through things like planned obsolescence, renting instead of owning, and appeasing the hedonic treadmi
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by mmillin 9mo ago
>Worse, many behaviors of the system don’t necessarily have a lot of conscious intent behind them (or any) This is one of the key reasons why I’ve ingrained the “You Ain’t Gonna Need It” principle into my development philosophy. Many tim
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by mmillin 1y ago
The biggest cause of these issues isn’t style-related or something that can be easily documented ahead of time. A recent example: an engineer wrote a custom caching layer for a service call, then called the service wrapper every time the da
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by mmillin 1y ago
It might take me an hour, but communicating the idea to the engineer, convincing them it’s better, guiding them to the solution, and then having them build it will take far longer wall clock time.
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by mmillin 1y ago
>I briefly try to think of which chucklefuck I could blame this design on, but truth be told I rubber-stamped enough questionable pull requests in my time here that a fair amount of this situation is a mess of my own damn making. This on
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by mmillin 1y ago
Did Anthropic ever use the term unlimited? I understand the general frustration with the pattern, but it seems weird to put unlimited in quotes when it wasn’t the way Claude was sold.
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by mmillin 1y ago
>In 2024, 551 tech companies laid off nearly 152,922 employees, according to data from Layoff.fyi. The pace has accelerated dramatically this year. In just the first six months of 2025, 151 tech companies have already laid off over 63,82
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by mmillin 1y ago
Reading this felt very similar to watching “Pitch Perfect 237” (Anna Kendrick 9/11 conspiracy) https://youtube.com/watch?v=MiC9X_MoE1M
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by mmillin 1y ago
There are important reasons to have domestic manufacturing even if automated and not creating jobs.
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by mmillin 1y ago
> incrementally builds my credit rating Most BNPL plans are not reported to credit agencies and therefore don’t build credit. But “financing” by paying with a credit card and paying the balance in full would build your credit, still with
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by mmillin 1y ago
I’m curious if .NET can compare here, though I have limited experience with rails or ASP.NET both seem to give you a lot to work with. Though the overlap of rails devs with .NET devs seems minimal.
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by mmillin 1y ago
A small amount of lead makes its way out of the chamber in the form of dust and fumes after shooting. It’s quite easy to breath this in or get it on your hands and accidentally ingest it. Not enough to matter for someone who occasionally go
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by mmillin 2y ago
>Just look at the millionaire CEO of your own company. Do they have 6 kids? They probably don't even have 4 kids. Couldn’t this also be evidence that money is the issue? i.e. you can’t get to that millionaire CEO spot if you have a
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Calendaring and Scheduling Developer's Wiki(devguide.calconnect.org)
1 points by mmillin 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmillin 3y ago
GnuPG/PGP and the web of trust[0]. A lot of things I see blockchain being used for today (e.g. NFTs) seems like it would be better solved using standard OpenPGP signatures with no backing chain. Additionally, as machine-generated conte
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Insomnia REST client now requires an account(github.com)
180 points by mmillin 3y ago|157 comments

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